Most of the problems displayed are grounded in the everyday needs of ancient Babylonians.

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He reflected on the myriad powers that have come and gone in the Fertile Crescent: Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans, Europeans, Saddam's Baathists.

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And it seems there is still more to learn from the Babylonians.

CNN: Pythagoras, a math genius? Not by Babylonian standards

No monument captures Mr Hussein's idea of his own place in history better than Babel, the ruined capital of the eponymous Babylonians.

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We know that lullabies were deemed important enough to be documented by the Babylonians 4, 000 years ago, but how much longer will they survive?

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Man battled the elements in Mesopotamia, and the desert and its ways of plunder and raiding pushed against urban life, but the land gave rise to powerful kingdoms: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Abbasids.

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